Read More... Nate Parker (Credit: AP/Chris Pizzello) “The Birth of a Nation” is a story that cried out to be told. Nate Parker’s film on the historic Nat Turner slave rebellion sold at Sundance in January for a record $17.5 million, and then the Oscar buzz began. Given the #OscarSoWhite controversy of the last two years, it has been suggested that “The Birth of a Nation” would be part of Hollywood’s much-needed racial redemption.